03-29-2006, 08:09 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-rhytha+Mar 29 2006, 03:10 AM-->QUOTE(rhytha @ Mar 29 2006, 03:10 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Hmm..liam i just visited your site, under "Siege Weapon Types in Other Cultures" you have mentoned "South Asian" instead of "Indian" and listed all the weapons which where used in ancient India, south asian is a term which is used from pakistan to indonesia, and since there is harldy any weapon from other culutres plz change it to Indian since else its very misleading.
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Hi,
South Asian usually refers to Pakistan, Indian, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and all the other Islands in the Indian Ocean. Indonesia etc. belong under South East Asia.
I think it is aptly named because it captures all the catapults invented in the region (but unknown to the Chinese which is what the section is about). Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the other islands never invented catapults. Whatever they used was borrowed from somewhere else. India constitutes the bulk of what is East Asia and if nationalistic pride is your concern, then imagine if you will a Pakistani who picks up the book upon seeing the word South Asian and reads only on Middle Eastern and Indian catapults with Pakistan adopting only the former. The other reason why South Asian is apt is simply because quite frankly, I don't know who invented these catapults. Weren't most Indian Heroes from the Ramayana/Mahabarata from the north, which includes parts of what is now Pakistan? The only clear reference is the Mahashilakantaka by the Magadhan empire, but then again the Empire also included Bangladesh.
I'm also labelling them in terms of regions, with the exception of the Japanese and Greco-Roman for two very different reasons. I cannot use East Asia to cover the Japanese for obvious reasons. I could have used Mediterranean for Greco-Roman but that would include parts of the Middle East and more importantly the Ayyubid dynasty which invented the hcw trebuchet. The title Greco-Roman is also more commonly used and therefore recognisable by western catapult enthusiast, a point very important if my book is to sell well in the US and the UK.
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Hi,
South Asian usually refers to Pakistan, Indian, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and all the other Islands in the Indian Ocean. Indonesia etc. belong under South East Asia.
I think it is aptly named because it captures all the catapults invented in the region (but unknown to the Chinese which is what the section is about). Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the other islands never invented catapults. Whatever they used was borrowed from somewhere else. India constitutes the bulk of what is East Asia and if nationalistic pride is your concern, then imagine if you will a Pakistani who picks up the book upon seeing the word South Asian and reads only on Middle Eastern and Indian catapults with Pakistan adopting only the former. The other reason why South Asian is apt is simply because quite frankly, I don't know who invented these catapults. Weren't most Indian Heroes from the Ramayana/Mahabarata from the north, which includes parts of what is now Pakistan? The only clear reference is the Mahashilakantaka by the Magadhan empire, but then again the Empire also included Bangladesh.
I'm also labelling them in terms of regions, with the exception of the Japanese and Greco-Roman for two very different reasons. I cannot use East Asia to cover the Japanese for obvious reasons. I could have used Mediterranean for Greco-Roman but that would include parts of the Middle East and more importantly the Ayyubid dynasty which invented the hcw trebuchet. The title Greco-Roman is also more commonly used and therefore recognisable by western catapult enthusiast, a point very important if my book is to sell well in the US and the UK.